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As an international entrepreneur, Steve Anderson has the best of both worlds, as he lives and owns businesses in Northwest Montana and in Central China. His business focus today is in the high end/luxury manufacturing and marketing of artistic, crafted and highly engineered goods and services in a variety of industry sectors, including the fine arts, specialty wood products, medical devices, lifestyle needs, biotechnology and animal/human sciences.
He is an active non-executive director and board member for a number of global firms and nonprofit organizations as well as an advisor for two-major Asia based Corporations. He remains passionate about entrepreneurial education with a true global perspective at all levels.
Over his career Steve has lived and operated out of over 20 countries throughout Asia, Europe, South America and Australia/New Zealand, as well as North America. His 25 year corporate life includes work with Tenneco, Bausch & Lomb and BassPlc, where he rose through the ranks of senior management to become CEO of Asia Pacific prior to leaving for early retirement to pursue his entrepreneurial calling in 2002.
Steve was raised in central Illinois and received his BS at Sangamon State and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin in International Business. During his long stay in China he met his partner and spouse Zhao Lei, and together they were fortunate enough to have a daughter Hannah Lei. They split their time between Bigfork, Montana and Shanghai as well as traveling around the world.
David Bell is the Global Professional Lines Manager for Allied World Assurance Company, Ltd. (AWAC). Prior to joining AWAC, he was with Chubb Insurance. He serves on the board of trustees of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), a 6,000- member nonprofit recognized as the primary source of education in the professional lines industry. In 2006 he was elected Vice President of PLUS by his fellow board members. Bell has authored numerous articles in various industry publications addressing rate dynamics that affect directors and officers liability coverage.
Additionally, he is on the board of World Vision (Bermuda), a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty.
Most recently, Bell and a partner founded Grateful Nation, a Montana-based nonprofit that provides both funding and support so that children of Montana-based soldiers killed in action in Iraq or Afghanistan can attend college. In addition to funding fours years of college for these young people, Grateful Nation is working with Montana universities to develop a comprehensive outreach program that gives the children of our fallen heroes the tools to be both academically and emotionally prepared to compete on the college level.
Bell holds a BA in Finance from the University of Montana. He and his wife Brittany (also a University of Montana alumna) live in Bermuda with their two children.
Charles "Sam" Courtney is a retired Foreign Service Officer. During his career he served in, among other countries, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. He was the first American diplomat assigned to the new country of Bangladesh at the end of the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971-72. Later he directed all information and cultural operations of the United States in South Asia. Subsequently he was in charge of these programs worldwide. He worked in the White House with four presidents. Upon retirement he became a visiting professor at The University of Montana, where he helped found the Montana World Trade Center. He also taught at the National War College, the University of Puget Sound, and Evergreen State College. His education includes degrees from Stanford and San Francisco State and postgraduate study at the university of Istanbul and Harvard. He lives near Missoula in Hamilton, Montana, and near Paris in Dampierre-sur-Avre, Normandy.
David Jänes is Program Officer and Assistant to the President at the United States-Japan Foundation, where he directs the Education, Policy, and Communications grant portfolios. He specializes in promoting mutual understanding between Japan and the United States through the educational systems of both countries. During his tenure at the Foundation, Mr. Jänes created, and currently directs, the Elgin Heinz Outstanding Teacher Awards for precollegiate educators who have demonstrated exemplary and innovative teaching on Japan, its language, and its culture. Mr. Jänes recently completed The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy's Global Master of Arts Program in International Affairs, and holds a Master of Arts degree in Asian Religions from the University of Hawaii and a B.A. in Religion from Mary Washington College. He has also studied at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar, and is a graduate of the Japan Center for Michigan Universities in Hikone, Japan. Mr. Jänes is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Trustee of the Japan ICU foundation.
Mark Johnson is the Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Montana and a Mansfield adjunct professor at the University of Montana. He spent 30 years in the U.S. State Department as a diplomat, serving in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Mickey Kalra is the founder of Clarington Capital Group and also the Chairman & CEO of Kickcomm Inc, a next-generation communications company. Mr. Kalra has over 19 years of experience in finance, management, marketing and company ownership. His broad experience, leadership abilities, and extensive group of expert associates worldwide, enabled him to develop strong relationships and have given him both a strategic and pragmatic vision of the Financial, Energy, Telecom and the Broadcasting/Entertainment industry in the US as well as in India. Mr. Kalra has also been featured by various Financial Journals and is an advisor to many organizations.
Mr. Kalra had management training with British American Tobacco and Holcim subsidiaries in India and gained experience on Economic Reforms in India through apex chambers of Commerce, namely CII, FICCI and Assocham. He has also interacted with many Diplomats based in India and USA.
Mr. Kalra received an FCA Degree from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, a Post-Graduate Degree in Law (LLB) from the Law Center University of Delhi, and completed an MEP Course at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA), (MEP Management Education Program in affiliation with Harvard Business School).
Paul Lauren is first Regents Professor ever named by The University of Montana. He is an internationally-recognized authority on diplomacy, international relations, and human rights. Professor Lauren has written many books on these subjects, been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and delivered invited addresses around the world and before the United Nations. He also served as the founding director of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at The University of Montana and as the Mansfield Professor of Ethics and Public Affairs.
John L. Menson II is retired from a career in international business. Mr. Menson began his career working for twelve years (1963-75) in various management positions related to budgeting and finance for Ford Motor Company's Tractor operations in Mexico and North America. Thereafter, he served as Founder and Senor Executive (1977-91) for JP Industries, Inc., a firm that purchased small firms, improved their management and product lines and subsequently listed them for public offering. Company turnover went from $3 million at the time Mr. Menson founded the enterprise to over $500 million at the time of its sale. From 1991-96, Menson served as Managing Director and Majority owner of Econocruise Ltd., a British company that designed and manufactured electronic control systems, guiding it through a major expansion in the process. He culminated his working career as Managing Director of Furon Ltd. From 1996-98. Menson has lived and worked in Japan and travels there frequently.
As a native Montanan and an alumnus of UM's graduate program in interdisciplinary studies, Michael (Sean) Molloy is a lifelong admirer of Mike Mansfield's devotion to the importance of Asian foreign policy
on the one hand, and the necessity of ethical leadership on the other. [Sean Molloy] Currently acting as Asia Pacific Regional Director for LoJack Corporation, Sean has pursued a career dedicated to promoting
stronger and more productive relations with China and Asia in the firm belief that businesses have a stake and responsibility in promoting more peaceful and productive integration among the diverse people, markets, and governments of the Pacific region.
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Rui Chenggang is a director and anchor of China Central Television, the national TV network of China. In addition to producing and anchoring the daily primetime news shows for CCTV's business and international channels, Chenggang, as CCTV's only bilingual business anchor and talk show host, also conducts face-to-face interviews with the world's top politicians, business leaders and economists. Since 1999, he has interviewed over 300 worldwide chairpersons and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 30 heads of state.
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